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Group A streptococci from a remote community have novel multilocus genotypes but share emm types and housekeeping alleles with isolates from worldwide sources.
The Journal of infectious diseases - 15 Feb 2004
McGregor Karen F, Bilek Nicole, Bennett Alicia, Kalia Awdhesh, Beall Bernard, Carapetis Jonathan R, Currie Bart J, Sriprakash Kadaba S, Spratt Brian G, Bessen Debra E
Abstract excerpt
Group A streptococci (GAS) cause several human diseases that differentially affect distinct host populations. Genotypes were defined by multilocus sequence typing and emm typing for 137 organisms collected from individuals in a remote aboriginal island community in tropical Australia and compared with >200 isolates obtained from sources elsewhere in the world. The majority of aboriginal-derived isolates shared...
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